. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THK IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST IND! Vol. X. No. 211. BARBADOS, JULY 22, 1911. Price Id, CONTENTS. Calcium Cyanamide and Nitrate df Lime Calcium Silicate as Plant Food Fruits, Improve- ment of Cotton Notes :— Cntton-Orowing in Peru Cotton-Growing in the Western United States India .and Long-Staple Cotton West Indian Cotton ... Department News Dominica and the Inter- national Rubber Ex- hibition Examinations in Connex- ion with the Courses of Reading of the De- par
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THK IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST IND! Vol. X. No. 211. BARBADOS, JULY 22, 1911. Price Id, CONTENTS. Calcium Cyanamide and Nitrate df Lime Calcium Silicate as Plant Food Fruits, Improve- ment of Cotton Notes :— Cntton-Orowing in Peru Cotton-Growing in the Western United States India .and Long-Staple Cotton West Indian Cotton ... Department News Dominica and the Inter- national Rubber Ex- hibition Examinations in Connex- ion with the Courses of Reading of the De- partment Field Experiments, Value of Fungus Notes:— The Sereh of the Sugar-Cane Page. 232 233 225 230 230 231 230 22G Page. Gleanina . 231 232 231 238 236 (Jlycerine, An Appaiatus for Sampling Insect Notes :— Insect Pollinaticm of an Aroid Plant Manures in Forestry, Use of Market Reports Nature Teacliing in Ele- mentary Schools in the Leeward Islands Northern Nigeria, Produc- tion in, 1909 Notes and Comments ... Prize-Holdings Scheme in St. Lucia Protection of liirds and Fish in Grenada ... Ruliber Culture in Tobago Rubber, Extraction from Guayulu Plant Students' Corner Sugar Industry :— of the Sugar-Cane "Vanilla, Method of Prun- ing West Indian Products ... 235 234 229 240 233 232 233 233 233 229 237 228 238 The Improvement of Fruits. ^ ^^T is commonly observed by growers of citrus ^ and other fruits that the yield from different ^ trees in the samcoichard »r plantation varies greatly; some plants continually produce a number of fruits which is above the average, while others seldom or rarely reach this average. The differences do not affect the yield alone, but exist also in relation to the quality and size of the fruit, the uniformity of the product, and the habit of growth of the trees. It is rare, however, that accurate and detailed observations are made for the purpose of comparing the trees in regard to these matters, a
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